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Egyptian
dead language, ancient language
Subclass ofEgyptian (language branch) Edit
Inception4. millennium BCE Edit
Native labelr n km.t, 𓂋𓏤𓈖𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 Edit
CountryRoman Egypt, Ancient Egypt, Egypt Edit
Linguistic typologyverb–subject–object, fusional language Edit
Writing systemEgyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian hieratic, Egyptian Demotic, Coptic script Edit
UNESCO language status6 extinct Edit
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date17. century Edit

Egyptian (Q50868) is an extinct language spoken in ancient Egypt.

Lexical category

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Grammatical categories

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Lemma

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In Egyptology, the phonological, Latin-based transliteration of Ancient Egyptian (Q2482781) of the lemma best represents a lemma. Generally, Egyptian spelling and Egyptological transliteration only represent the consonants and glides. Due to a high amount of consonantal homonyms, lemmata need to be identified eighther by an ID or by the combination of its transliteration and a selected spelling in Egyptian hieroglyphs (Q132659), which provides more information than the transliteration.

Transliteration and transliteration systems

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There are many different transliteration systems in Egyptology. On the occasion of the International Congress of Egyptologists in 2023, a working group suggested a particular variant as recommended for digital Egyptological data: the Leiden Unified Transliteration/Transcription (Q131362896) (LUT). It is suggested to add the transliteration in LUT format, using the language tag "egy-x-Q131362896". We have asked to register the valid IETF languange tag "egy-Egyp" in Wikidata (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381585).

The codepoints for the transliteration symbols are enumerated in the section "Unicode" on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Ancient_Egyptian#Unicode.

Hieroglyphs

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It is recommended to add ideally common, informative hieroglyphic spelling to the lemma entry. It is suggested to add the hieroglyphic spelling in Unicode (Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Q2494183)), using the language tag "egy-x-Q132659". We have asked to register the languange tag "egy-Latn-x-lut2023" or "egy-Latn-lut2023" in Wikidata (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381585).

Identifiers

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Resources

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Thesaurus Lingue Aegyptiae

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The ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot (talkcontribslogs) contributes selected data from Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (Q122748326) https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de, Corpus issue 19, 11/5/2024, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.

Coverage in Wikidata

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Selection criteria

  • First batch, December 2024:
    • Include all basic Parts of Speech (excluding most titles, epithets, and names, as well as roots).
    • Exclude TLA sub-lemmata for specific senses.
    • Exclude collocation lemmata, i.e. discontinous multi-word expressions.


Hieroglyphic/hieratic lemmata
POS TLA v19 (2023) Wikidata
Nouns 11241 10095
Names 11544 977
Titles / epithets 8013 82
Adjectives 309 287
Verbs 3720 2561
Adverbs 176 167
Pronouns 216 170
Numerals 129 30
Prepositions 387 281
Particles 164 123
Interjections 16 15
Punctuation marks 6 0
(undefined) 562 0
Sum 39960 14787

(State of 2024-12-06.)

Contact

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